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Today was a real shot-in-the-arm… literally… my wife and I both got our first Phizer shot. We have our next appointment in three weeks. We had it at Norton Health Care's West Louisville clinic. It was perfectly organized and executed. Piece of cake!
Because I got up so early, and it was an exercise day, I was able to get the shot, do my exercise AND get a full day in the shop. And I took advantage of it.
I got the parking lot basically finished and glued in. I finished the parking sign and finished up making the LED driver boards for all the ancillary street lights that I will be installing.
My perseverance paid off. I was able to successfully solder a surface mount LED without cooking it and got the second (and final) parking sign light fixture finished. I got the two aluminum shafts down into the 3/16" shaft and used thick CA to secure it all. I soldered some medium gauge red/jack zip cord to the magnet wire then found it the four leads wouldn't pass through the 3/16" shaft hole in the parking lot. I cut those wires off and soldered on some light gauge wires that I bought in Germany and have been using ever since. The spools are getting a bit sparse, but I think they'll last until the layout is completed. After I took the picture I painted the base. The 3D printed bases came out perfect.
I glued the parking lot to the green foam sub-base using Liquid Nails and lots of gravity clamps. After it was set I drilled new holes all the way through for Saulena's, Idaho's and the parking lot wires. I have
